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Sahil Lavingia | 28th May 2025 Diary of an engineer at the "Department of Government Efficiency". Initially enthusiastic about joining a "revolutionary force" that would help people, he soon ran into problems. DOGE had no direct authority and only operated at the whim of Trump's appointees. There was no team culture, little information sharing, and even his laptop barely worked. On day 55, he was unexpectedly let go (1,500 words)
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Deb Olin Unferth | Paris Review | 27th May 2025 On the mental burden of an academic research stipend, which provided "a few grand a year" for five years that could only be spent on certain items by navigating a labyrinthine expenses process. Only books were easy to claim for. And so the recipient bought books: so many books that they took over her house. Still the stipend remained. Eventually, she went to the Arctic, just to get rid of the money (2,200 words)
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